Editing Frederick Douglass (section)

==Death==
[[File:Frederick Douglass gravestone (2018).jpg|thumb|The gravestone of Frederick Douglass, located in [[Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester]]]]

On February 20, 1895, Douglass attended a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, D.C. During that meeting, he was brought to the platform and received a standing ovation. Shortly after he returned home, Douglass died of a heart attack.<ref name="frederick-douglass-heritage.org">{{cite web |title=Later Years and Death |url=http://www.frederick-douglass-heritage.org/later-years-death/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221122559/http://www.frederick-douglass-heritage.org/later-years-death/ |archive-date=December 21, 2020 |access-date=September 21, 2017 |website=Frederick Douglass Heritage}}</ref> He was 77.

His funeral was held at the [[Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church]]. Although Douglass had attended several churches in the nation's capital, he had a pew here and had donated two standing candelabras when this church had moved to a new building in 1886. He also gave many lectures there, including his last major speech, "The Lessons of the Hour".<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/resource/lcrbmrp.t2110/?sp=1 Library of Congress]</ref><ref name="religionnews.com" />

Thousands of people passed by his coffin to show their respect. United States senators and Supreme Court justices were [[pallbearer]]s. [[Jeremiah Rankin]], president of [[Howard University]], delivered "a masterly address". A letter from [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] was read. The Secretary of the Haitian Legation "expressed the condolence of his country in melodious French."<ref>{{cite news
|title=Frederick Douglass Still Lives
|first=Kate
|last=Field
|author-link=Kate Field
|journal=Kate Field's Washington
|volume=11
|number=9
|date=March 2, 1895
|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2605441&view=1up&seq=170
|access-date=March 22, 2022
|archive-date=March 22, 2022
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322140313/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2605441&view=1up&seq=170
|url-status=live
}}</ref>

Douglass's coffin was transported to [[Rochester, New York]], where he had lived for 25 years, longer than anywhere else in his life. His body was received in state at City Hall, flags were flown at half mast, and schools adjourned.<ref>{{cite journal
|title=A Life of Contrasts
|first=Kate
|last=Field
|author-link=Kate Field
|volume=11
|number=16
|pages=253–254
|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2605441&view=1up&seq=280
|journal=Kate Field's Washington
|date=April 20, 1895
|access-date=March 20, 2022
|archive-date=March 22, 2022
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322140311/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2605441&view=1up&seq=280
|url-status=live
}}</ref> He was buried next to Anna in the Douglass family plot of [[Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester|Mount Hope Cemetery]].<ref name=Freethought/> Helen was also buried there, in 1903. His grave is, with that of [[Susan B. Anthony]], the most visited in the cemetery.<ref name=Freethought>{{cite web
|title=Frederick Douglass Grave Site
|publisher=The Freethought Trail
|url=http://www.freethought-trail.org/site.php?By=SiteType&Page=3&Site=50
|url-status=live
|year=2022
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924015517/http://www.freethought-trail.org/site.php?By=SiteType&Page=3&Site=50
 |archive-date=September 24, 2015
|access-date=March 17, 2022 }}</ref> A marker, erected by the [[University of Rochester]] and other friends, describes him as "escaped slave, abolitionist, suffragist, journalist and statesman, founder of the [[Civil Rights Movement]] in America".<ref name=Freethought/>